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polysemous, a. (pɒlɪˈsiːməs) [Orig. f. med.L. polysēm-us (Dante), a. Gr. πολύσηµ-ος of many senses, f. πολυ-, poly- + σῆµα sign, σηµαίνειν to signify; in modern linguistic use, prob. reformed on polysemy + -ous.] Having many meanings; spec. in Linguistics, = polysemic a.1884 Athenæum 17 May 628/2 Wh...
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Polysemy
English has many polysemous words. Semantic shift can separate a polysemous word into separate homonyms.
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Come up with a sentence for the following definition: Polysemous
Polysemous words are words with multiple meanings.
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Persistence (linguistics)
This relationship is often completely opaque by the stage of morphologisation, but during intermediate stages it may be expected that a form will be polysemous
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polysemy
polysemy Linguistics. (ˈpɒlɪsiːmɪ) Also in mod.L. form polyˈsemia. [ad. F. polysémie (M. Bréal Essai de Sémantique (1897) xiv. 155), f. med.L. polysēmus (see polysemous a.): see -y3, -ia1.] The fact of having several meanings; the possession of multiple meanings.1900 N. Cust tr. Bréal's Semantics xi...
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Homonym
A distinction is sometimes made between true homonyms, which are unrelated in origin, such as skate (glide on ice) and skate (the fish), and polysemous The distinction between polysemy and homonymy is often subtle and subjective, and not all sources consider polysemous words to be homonyms.
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Groupe μ
Some of their early work in the 1960s dealt with linguistically oriented topics such as polysemous language, and the nature of synecdoche and metaphor.
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Semantic ambiguity
For instance, the English "foot" is polysemous since in general it refers to the base of an object, but can refer more specifically to the foot of a person
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Why is vegetable 野菜 and not just 菜? Whenever I see _vegetable_ translated, it seems to always be as {}. But doesn't by itself mean vegetable? If so, why add the extra character? I've noticed this in a couple of oth...
A single kanji is often polysemous, and the most of those kanji are only viable within compounds, being interdependent with other characters to specify
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Mirella Lapata
Lapata's doctoral research investigated the acquisition of information from polysemous linguistic units using probabilistic methods supervised by Alex
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The Confounding Mandarin Colour Term 'Qīng': Green ... - Springer
The Mandarin word qīng ('青'), which Google translates to 'green', 'blue' and even 'black', among other colour terms in English, is one of the oldest, most frequently used colour terms in Mandarin and probably the most confounding. The word is polysemous and its multiple meanings and combinations with other words have generated much confusion among generations of non-native ...
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The Mistakes in Contract Translation - CCJK
There are many mistakes in English contract translation. When translating, every aspect should be taken into consideration. Following are some common mistakes occurred in translation. 1. Misunderstanding of Polysemous Lexis As we all known, a word may have many meanings, which is called polysemy. Polysemy means that a given word has more than one meaning. […]
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Ania Bien
David Levi-Strauss wrote that Bien's art piece is a "polysemous work of absence, in which what happens between images is the most important."
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